Loving Poetry – Weeds
Is it safe to visit? Weeds If you kill a neighbor,You’ll die for murder.If you kill a weed,You’ll never bleed. I do good deedsWhen I’m happy.I attack my weedsWhen life goes crappy. If the garden […]
Tag: sin
Happy Easter, Use Your Signal
“With love for mankind and hatred of sins.” – St. Augustine. In other words, love the sinner, hate the sin. It seems black and white, but it covers an area vast and gray […]
Church Diaries
Sunday 8:00 AM. It’s snowing. I think I’ll skip Mass today. Skipping church on Sunday is a mortal sin, says Father McGarrity. I’ll bet it’s not any kind of sin when it’s snowing. Maybe it’s […]
What Happens to Impatient Catholic Girls?
Picture a religious ceremony for a Catholic 6th grade class. Every item of food sitting on plates in front of each student represents something (sorry, I don’t remember why we had the ceremony and I […]
Eric Preet’s Week of Sins: Sunday
AND, INDEED, I was. Brenda was relentless. The next day was Sunday and she was still hard at it, or, rather, me. If I had been hoping to commit the seventh deadly sin of sloth, […]
Eric Preet’s Week of Sins: Saturday
“AYE, AYE, WHAT’S all this then?” It was Saturday morning. Through my bleary vision I could just make out the form of a policeman. I thought the film makers must have come back and that […]
Eric Preet’s Week of Sins: Thursday
BROMLEY! THE SORT of sleepy suburbia that should be the bed-manufacturing capital of the world. I was going to claim what was rightfully mine. I rang the doorbell and got no response. I pressed harder. […]
Eric Preet’s Week of Sins: Tuesday
CONSCIOUSNESS RETURNED and I couldn’t believe my eyes. They were in a jam jar on the bedside table. I could see myself lying on my back in a hospital bed. Immediately, I screwed my eyeballs […]